<p>"Coach Paterno, there are numerous reports that Coach Sandusky was having oral and anal sex with juvenile boys in the Penn State locker room. Additionally, Assistant Coach McQueary has sworn under oath that he told you about one such, um encounter, ten years ago … at your home. A grand jury, upon hearing testimony about Coach Sandusky’s repeated sexual assaults of minor boys in the Penn State football facilities, indicted several university officials for failing to report and investigate claims of juvenile rape in your teams facilities.</p>
<p>How do you respond to these facts, allegations, and indictments?</p>
<p>One of his staff was accused of abusing boys and you think he wasn’t told? That is absurd. Sandusky was forced to resign after the 1998 events, and you think Joe was clueless as to why</p>
<p>And we are supposed to trust the amazing campus police, the very ones whondidnt report the 2002 events?</p>
<p>One event one time no matter when should have been enough forthose men to do the right thing</p>
<p>So Paterno’s son says the Penn State Lawyers told him his dad did not see the 1998 report. That doesn’t even qualify as hearsay evidence. </p>
<p>And for people saying they want to hear Paterno’s side of this. Well why hasn’t he given that side? He is no longer an employee of the university, so what is stopping him.</p>
<p>And I also find it hard to believe that Paterno’s assistant, friend, and possible successor was under investigation and he knew nothing about it. </p>
<p>One thing we know for a fact, he knew about the incident in 2002 and did the bare legal minimum and nothing more. And that is what he will be remembered for</p>
<p>^^ As a matter of respect, I’d he happy to see him answer the question also. I’d even give him immunity for his statements. But what could he possibly say that would make people sit up and shout “Oh I see! This show’s over … let’s reinstate everyone to their positions on a permanent basis. And Mr. Sandusky, L-O-V-E what you’re doing with those boys!”</p>
<p>The news just recently reported that a lawyer for several of the victims criticized the Board of Trustees for firing Paterno summarily. He said they should have consulted with the victims and their families first, that they would have preferred to have Paterno coach out the season. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, I hadn’t even thought about the fact that the AG who impaneled this grand jury and then didn’t bring any charges for two years was Tom Corbett. During most of that time he was running for governor. I wonder if he ever thought about the effect it would have on his political campaign if he happened to lob a bomb like this at Penn State and Joe Paterno in the middle of the election? Nah, couldn’t happen . . . </p>
<p>Meanwhile, Paterno’s son is assuring us that his father knew nothing about the 1998 investigation, because university lawyers told the son that. How telling is that?</p>
<p>Because that is literally the absolute minimum? </p>
<p>Did he immediately afterwards forget about the matter, not to remember for 9 years or so? Never again saw Sandusky on campus during those 9 years, despite the fact they have offices in the same building?</p>
<p>It’s inconceivable that a person with any amount of character at all would immediately drop such a serious matter and never again think about it.</p>
<p>Just so everyone understands, I am not talking about the Penn State administrators, who apparently did not report the incident to the police. My comments regarding the fairness of these attacks pertain to Paterno only.</p>
<p>Because that WAS the absolute minimum. He could have pushed the administration to pursue the matter. He could have called the cops himself. Mr. Integrity flunked his Honor test, in a very big way.</p>
<p>Parent57 so you really think patero did all he could have and should have to protect little boys, even if, and it’s a big if, he only knew sketchy details of the 2002 event. And we aren’t talking legal, we are talking moral. And while those other men may on paper be his bosses, in realitty, Joe was in control</p>
<p>It was in Joe locker room, joes facilites, and he just gives a sanitized version at least initially to these other men and when they do nothing, he washes his hands of of the whole thing.</p>
<p>If I reported something that serious to campus police and they did nothing, I would go to whomever I needed to to protect children.</p>
<p>“Did he immediately afterwards forget about the matter, not to remember for 9 years or so? Never again saw Sandusky on campus during those 9 years, despite the fact they have offices in the same building?”</p>
<p>Good questions - let’s give Paterno a chance to respond to them. </p>
<p>Maybe he thought Sandusky was cleared of the charges, and since he didn’t know about the 1998 incident, he thought Sandusky was innocent. Remember, we are not sure what Paterno was told in 2002, even though the assistant testified before the grand jury, we still don’t know if Paterno agrees with his version of what happened.</p>